/lit/ - Literature

>Drinking is...le bad!

>70 years later
>still unsurpassed
What happened? Is literature dead?

"Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine."

What a great book. What a great fucking book.

Best book of the 20th century?

Started reading a couple days after actually being in Cuernavaca. I was worried I was in over my head, but it’s getting more accessible by the chapter. Glad to check this one out

Why does /lit/ never discuss the greatest 20th century novel?

Finished this today. I kinda had mixed feelings on it but overall I liked it. As an alcoholic (with 8 months sober) I can relate to the way DTs and alcoholism are wrtten about, although I never got quite as bad as what's described. The mania of drunkenness and your nervous system firing and going crazy from the abusive cycle. I've never been to Mexico but the way the landscape is described in combination with the history of it was well done. A place's history does impact the feeling of a place, whether it's the trickle down of effects through the people still living there or the conscious knowledge of those events subliminally coloring your perception of your own life. The consul was a self-important pretentious douchebag like many alcoholics who are romanticizing drinking themselves to death. And Hugh was even more unlikable and annoying to me. But that's beside the point. Well written book, would recommend

Who else has read it, and what did you think of it

More white boy summer core books?

Can I read this book high on weed marijuana or do I have to be drunk?

>>17265042

>tfw you will NEVER be a constantly inebriated diplomat in a cozy Mexican town

This is supposed to be a modern classic? I'm not drunk enough for this shit.

Recommend novels set in Mexico.

I'll start

Hi /lit/, good novels about characters who struggle with alcoholism? I found pic related to be a pretty troubling yet accurate depiction of sever alcoholism, but I also didn't really like the book that much so I'm looking for something else.

What am I in for?